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[therapeutics]

Nothing more than I can handle.

[ nowhere near it, in fact. but shhh. ]

Though I have my share of patients.

[ one. one patient. ]

[phaseshifted]

Makes sense, for a war. If there's really one going on right now.

[Naivety? Or sarcasm because for as much as they had stressed the war on her arrival there didn't seem to be too much action towards that going on. It's a side effect of living somewhere where things and people exploded on a daily basis, you got just a bit impatient when things were too peaceful. Peaceful isn't bad, just unexpected.]

[therapeutics]

I mean, there was just a mutiny. If nothing else, there's fighting. And they rendered Earth unlivable for a while - or something. [ guess who needs to stop talking about shit she doesn't know about: IT'S JULIA! either way, the sarcasm doesn't faze her. she takes a breath, leaning against the doorway, looking at her chipped fingernail polish. ]

[phaseshifted]

I heard a bit about the mutiny-what really happened?

[Whispers in the hallways didn't tell someone much about the actual events.]

[therapeutics]

Oh, I'm not at liberty to say.

[ it's a very, very easy way of saying i have no idea. she was aware of the chaos, but tablets, man. those things are weird. she's still not entirely used to it, and was even less so at the time of the mutiny. ]

Fighting. Control issues. The power went out. All kinds of shit.

[phaseshifted]

Did anyone die?

[Asked with the same casual air as "what's the score of the game on right now". It's a valid question.]

[therapeutics]

Do people usually?

[ translation: what do you think?, or i have no idea. ]

Some people got thrown in jail, lost their powers. All that shit.

[phaseshifted]

[Lost their powers. Angel's blood runs cold at that, but she tries to make it seem like she's not unsettled.]

Just wondering about how much chaos I missed.

[therapeutics]

Oh, honey, don't worry. I'm sure there's enough messes left for you to get into.

[phaseshifted]

I didn't say I wanted to get into any messes at all.

[therapeutics]

Good luck with that, honey. You think I did?

[ fact aside that messes are all julia ever gets into, but. ]

[phaseshifted]

And what'd they do to you?

[therapeutics]

You think I got roped into this mutiny bullshit willingly? Hell no. I'm busy trying to keep that away from me, then the next thing I know, I'm being asked to psychoanalyze some jackass. [ who got a little overeager, she's going to add, but she's smart enough to cut herself off. ]

Other than that, it was a matter of getting used to having a practical fetus for a roommate. Formerly.

[phaseshifted]

Practical fetus?

[Excuse her while she just looks disbelieving as she imagines a baby in a jar as a roommate. Or something.]

[therapeutics]

Well. Not a literal fetus; she was, like, sixteen. [ and said she couldn't drink in the room okay that's the important thing. ] But still.

[phaseshifted]

A sixteen year old fetus.

[you've made Angel give you the most massive sideeye. achievement, right there.]

[therapeutics]

Or, you know. A teenager.

She was a kid, is what I'm saying.

[phaseshifted]

That makes more sense now. Why does her being a kid matter, though?

[therapeutics]

You think a sixteen year old kid has a place in the middle of a time war?

[phaseshifted]

Sixteen isn't that young to be fighting.

[Sixteen was old enough to be an adult, more than old enough to carry a gun and know what you wanted to die for. If they couldn't fight, then they had a luxury the likes of which almost pains Angel.]

[therapeutics]

Listen, I don't know about you, but where I'm from? We have laws against this kind of thing.

[ god, she was only twice david's age. and while julia doesn't consider herself maternal in any capacity, there are still lines that shouldn't be crossed. ]

[phaseshifted]

[Angel shrugs.]

And how old is old enough to start fighting? How long can the youth of your world afford to stay inexperienced in having to defend what you need?

[It's not the talk she was aiming to have, but the way Julia seems so taken aback by the possibility of teenagers participating in war? This world really is insanely different.]

[therapeutics]

Afford to?

[ julia leans in, the most incredulous expression spreading over her face. ]

Where the hell are you from that people need to fight? Sure, we had the draft, but that's only for men. A good portion of people never set foot on a battlefield.

[phaseshifted]

...Do you mind if I ask to sit before I answer that?

[If she's going to divulge where she comes from, she'd like to sit down first.]

[therapeutics]

Uh.

[ eyes darting, slightly, julia takes a step back inside the room. there's not much room in there, mind, but there's another bed. she gestures to it. ]

Sure.